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You've seen the video: tens of thousands of protesters packing the streets and squares of Tehran One crowd claiming election fraud and demanding a new vote. Another insisting that last week's results were fair and accurate.

This battle is being waged, not just in Iran's capital, but in cyber space. Activists on both sides are getting out their messages by using Twitter, Facebook, and other sites.

Those who dissent risk prison. Iran's government has ordered bloggers to remove anything that would quote, "create tension." But with some Iranian reporters under arrest and foreign correspondents now banned from covering demonstrations in person, these citizen journalists are there to tell the world what they see.

They are passionate and often manage to get around government restrictions on cell phones and the internet by using the technological revolution to fight a political one.

I'm Seth Doane. CBS News.

Welcome to an e-election. Nearly a quarter of Americans get their political news from the Internet, especially people between the ages of 18 and 29.

What does this mean for the race to November? Just click on the monitor at left for more.

Eric Kuhn is a 20-year-old summer intern here at CBS, and something of a Facebook expert. We asked him to blog about this web phenomenon that has now gotten Rudy Giuliani's daughter in hot water.

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Everyone and their mothers these days seem to want a Facebook profile. For those out of the loop, a Facebook profile is a page on the internet where you talk about yourself, your interests, favorite music, movies, books, your relationship status (single, dating, married…), and anything else you want to share, including your address, telephone number, and what classes you are taking for the semester.

The older people I know want profiles on Facebook for reasons ranging from keeping “cool” to keeping tabs on their kids. Unless you have Facebook, you cannot see anyone’s profile.

Whatever the reason may be, Rudy Giuliani’s daughter broke the number one rule of Facebook when she joined a “Barack Obama” group. See, you NEVER have something on your Facebook profile that you don’t want to appear on the front page of the New York Times (or Slate)! It should have been obvious to her as a college student (not to mention as the daughter of a presidential candidate), but I am sure that the older generation has no clue of the dos and don’ts of Facebook.

See, in college and high school, there are the unwritten rules of Facebook. Someone over the age of 21 probably wouldn't know what they might be, so to shed some light on this set of laws, I thought I'd blog about a few of them...

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